Letters from Sunnyvale Sun readers

I have lived in Sunnyvale for 45 years. That is almost half of my life.

I have seen a lot of council members come and go. I have never seen anyone like Councilman Meyering.

I have written about him before, but I think it is time to say it again: He is a troublemaker!

If you watch the council meetings, which I do, you will sometimes see the voting pattern is six "yes" and one "no" or six "no" and one "yes." This is not once in a while; it is almost every vote.

I can't understand his reasoning, but then I never have. He came to my door when he was campaigning. I asked him why he wanted to be on the council. He said he would start citizen petitions!

When I asked him what that meant, he gave me some mumbling answer, which only added to my confusion. So, I didn't vote for him.

But I do want to vote now to have him recalled. In fact, I have already done so, and I urge others to do the same.

Wilma Anderson

Sunnyvale

Councilman's time to leave

In the two years that Sunnyvale City Council member Pat Meyering has been in office, he has been successful in driving off the council's only two direct reports--our highly regarded city attorney and city manager--by creating a hostile work environment.

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Despite having been officially censured by the city council in May and having received several reprimand letters from the interim attorney and then-mayor for divulging confidential information for political gain and violating the city's Code of Conduct, Meyering continues to abuse, lie and attack anyone who deigns to disagree with him, including citizens who come up to speak.

When I spoke at a city council meeting to point out that Meyering's claim that other council members had "voted themselves a pay raise" was impossible as per the city charter, he resorted to calling me "a hack." He knew that his statement was false, and he therefore couldn't rebut mine, so instead he insulted me in a very public way. That's unacceptable to me as a citizen and voter.

Although Meyering professes to care about the city and its residents, he has never attended any of the city's functions such as the state of the city addresses and was the only council member to boycott Sunnyvale's Centennial Celebration, a decidedly non-political event. He claims he's trying to save the city money, but filed a personal injury lawsuit against the city the day after being sworn in, which was dismissed as frivolous a week or so ago by the presiding judge.

Sunnyvale's transition to even-year elections means he's in office for three more years. Given the damage and dysfunction he has already wrought in his first two years, we can't afford another three more. The only way to right this wrong is to put on the upcoming ballot the option for Sunnyvale residents to weigh in and recall him. There is a group of citizens trying to get the required number of signatures to put it on the ballot, but we need Sunnyvale voters to help.

Visit recallpatmeyering.org, sign the petition and help give Sunnyvale voters a voice in deciding whether we want to continue to tolerate his behavior.